Question

Your committee's charge is to investigate a concern presented by the state health department, which maintains registries for most infectious diseases. Review of these registries revealed that over the past five years, 16 cases of acute hepatitis virus infection had a commonality: 16 patients had visited the same hospital based medical practice, South Suburban Hospital, before the onset of the infection. The state health department conducted an investigation, consisting of the collection of blood samples from healthcare personnel coupled with a series of comprehensive interviews. Results of the investigation indicated the following: none of the healthcare personnel had a history of acute hepatitis or HBV immunizations. The state health department conducted an investigation, consisting of the collection of blood samples from healthcare personnel coupled with a series of comprehensive interviews. Results of the investigation indicated the following: none of the healthcare personnel had a history of acute hepatitis or HBV immunization, and to physician dermatologist had a negative HBV surface antigen test but positive HBV surface antibody tests, which indicated that the physicians had been exposed to HBV. Further and give us the Quetion revealed that these two physicians had seen 15,000 patients over the five-year study. The majority of these patients were white, female, and over the age of 50 years.

The State Health Department has issued the following questions to be investigated by your outbreak investigation and prevention committee:

1. What is the source of the Hepatitis B virus outbreak?
2. How did the outbreak begin?
3. Who is the index case?
4. Has the outbreak ended?
5. What is the hospital’s plan to ensure the future outbreaks will not occur?

Answer 1

Answer:-

1) Source of hepatitis b outbreak

The source of disease was iatrogenic in nature that is from the doctor to the patient.

2)

The outbreak began when the first patient got disease with hepatitis from the bearer. Doctor

3)

Index case is the main recorded patient who went to the emergency clinic

4)

In the event that no new cases has revealed in the ongoing days just as on the off chance that the effectively uncovered patient are segregated, then the outbreak has ended .

Just as the doctor has created antibodies so doctor never again is a transporter

5)

Neighborliness can ensure that all strategies are finished utilizing individual defensive gear

Fumigation must be done after contaminated patient visit operation

Blood assortment ought to be finished with alert

Maintain a strategic distance from needle prick injury

Ensure doctor use hand sanitizer and cleanser each time in the wake of touching a patient.

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